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  • Opinion: ”Earth aligned” AI development contribute to planetary stability

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    Published Apr 01, 2025

    A newly published opinion piece addresses AI’s role in sustainability amid global crises. The authors propose ”The Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence”, encompassing controlled growt...

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  • Sverker Sörlin receives the Axel Hirsch Prize 2025

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    Published Mar 31, 2025

    Sverker Sörlin, Professor in Environmental History at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, has been awarded the Axel Hirsch Prize 2025, together with Anders Burman and Danie...

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  • Global interest for Snö

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    Image: Erik Abel
    Published Mar 13, 2025

    Snö: en historia(Snow: a history) by EHL co-founder and KTH professor of environmental history Sverker Sörlin, is a book about what we are losing. On a warming planet there is less snow every year. We...

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  • EHL hosted workshop on environments in games

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    Published Mar 13, 2025

    This February EHL invited two researchers from Lund University to hold an interactive workshop on how different games, specifically video games, shape our understanding of environments, as part of EHL...

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  • "Tech-bros" in politics and technological optimism as a social force

    Published Jan 13, 2025

    Read and listen to Johan Fredrikzon, postdoctoral researcher at the KTH Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment and visiting researcher at Stanford, on Sweden's Radio P1 and in the ...

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  • Call for participants: ESEH Summer School in Anthropocene Histories

    Published Dec 19, 2024

    Summer School in Anthropocene Histories, August 25-28, 2025. Organised by the Center for Anthropocene History at KTH, and the European Society for Environmental History.

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  • Reflections and recording of the Archipelago lecture 2024

    Published Dec 17, 2024

    Last week, Timothy Mitchell from Columbia University joined us at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory to give the thirteenth annual Archipelago Lecture.  Below you can read EHL’s director Rob ...

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  • Centre for Anthropocene History researcher awarded 2024 Rainger Prize by History of Science Society

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    Published Nov 26, 2024
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  • Humanioras roll i framtidens professionsutbildningar

    Published Nov 26, 2024

    Välkommen till en eftermiddag om humanioras betydelse för samhällsutvecklingen i allmänhet och professionsutbildningar i synnerhet!

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  • Join this year’s Archipelago Lecture with Timothy Mitchell

    Published Nov 25, 2024

    On the 11th of December, we gather in the F building at KTH Campus for a lecture by Timothy Mitchell, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University and author of "Carbon Democracy". Mitch...

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  • Susanna Lidström and Nina Wormbs' DN Debate article "Don't sacrifice the ocean to save the climate"

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    Published Nov 20, 2024
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  • Sverker Sörlin tours Arctic Humanities at UiT Tromsø

    Published Nov 07, 2024

    History Professor Sverker Sörlin visited The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø in September to tour research environments within the Arctic Humanities.

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  • Digital Ecologies Conference co-organised by Center for Anthropocene History researcher

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    Published Nov 06, 2024
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  • Center for Anthropocene History researcher to join symposium on "extraction beyond Earth"

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    Published Nov 05, 2024

    Centre post-doctoral researcher Megan Eardley will speak at the OFF EARTH symposium, which focuses on mining beyond the Earth – e.g. on other planets – as part of the 18th Venice International Archite...

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  • Centre for Anthropocene History researcher joins 'Storm Cloud' conference

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    Published Oct 29, 2024

    Gustave Lester will speak at the Storm Cloud conference, convened by The Huntington in California this November with a focus on Environment, Empire, and the Arts.

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  • Baltic Conference on Environmental Humanities & Social Sciences co-organised by Center researcher

    Published Oct 23, 2024

    The conference runs October 23-25 and is Co-organized by the Center for Anthropocene History’s Kati Lindström.

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  • Centre for Anthropocene History Officially Launched at KTH

    Published Oct 22, 2024

    The new Centre for Anthropocene History at KTH has been inaugurated at a public event, opened by co-directors Sabine Höhler and Adam Wickberg with special guests including Indian historian Dipesh Chak...

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  • The film festival Crosscuts is happening again this November at KTH

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    Published Oct 11, 2024

    Crosscuts, the environmental humanities film festival at KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, will again occur at KTH on 6-7 November. The festival's fourth edition explores forests and our many d...

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  • Thomas Schrøder, new visiting researcher in Taiwan

    Published Sep 30, 2024
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  • The recipient of the 2024 Humtank Prize is Sverker Sörlin

    Published Sep 25, 2024

    The society needs humanities knowledge. The humanities need to reach out into society. Therefore, the think tank Humtank annually awards the Humtank Prize to academics who have made significant contri...

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